Samsung Pay Now on Gear S2 Smartwatch

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PC Mag ME TeamJuly 20, 2016, 3 p.m.

The feature is available for all Gear S2 owners in the US.

Samsung Gear S2 owners can now pay for things right from their wrists.

Samsung has been promising to bring Samsung Pay to the smartwatch, and now the tech giant is finally making it happen. Until now, only a small group of users participating in a closed beta have been able to use the company's mobile payment system from the Gear S2; now it's available for everyone in the US.

Droid Life reports that the feature, still in beta on the Gear S2, launched Monday as part of an update to the Samsung Gear app. "We updated Gear apps and Gear S2 software everywhere we could and sure enough, the option to use Samsung Pay is indeed now there," the site says.

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To try it out, just update your Gear app, then look for the Samsung Pay Beta option in the Settings menu. You'll then be prompted to install the Samsung Pay app from the Galaxy Apps store. After doing so, you'll need to set up a secure password and add your card information. Note that you will need to provide your card details even if you previously set up Samsung Pay on your phone.

After that, you can simply "lower your wrist to an NFC payment terminal and payment should go through," Droid Life reports.

The Samsung Gear S2 went on sale in October for $299.99. It sports a 1.2-inch circular Super AMOLED 360-by-360 display with 302ppi, runs a dual-core 1GHz processor, and comes with 4GB of internal memory and 512MB of RAM.